My Tempest Heights Story

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Tuesday, September 29th 2015, 9:41pm

so it looks like Temptest Heights is back on its correct time (altho four minutes off as per all current RoM'ian clocks such as siege? and festival stuff?)

we started with 2 endgame mages, 2 priests and the idea to burn through the first 10 levels... my numbers could be off abit but I believe that around lv 5 the regular mobs (hereforth called trash) were 3m hp and we had to change strats abit, one mage ran around the circle and brough t all the trash to the second, and they both purged (one mage says he was dpsing 1.4m at one point) mages should bring pots, mine said they ended up using atleast 5 phirus pots... at round 9 we had another strat issue
the boss try'd to eat the mage it was close to see if the heals could out heal the boss dps and he was eating half their health...
we added a tank around round 12 and it eased up abit on us, trash mobs was 6 million hps? boss was maybe 11 million? added another mage and a rogue... had three crashes losing two mages and a heal
acouple wipes losing mages and heal again some of the mobs around round15 had spells that would knock people to the ground and another round feared us, but we carried through and killed the last mobs on round 18 had 11.6 million hps, we saw the round 19 trash was snake like critters and *temptest heights closed* so close, we got interesting loot some high mats (bloodpalm) rank 6 7 and 9 runes

so my suggestions so far, I really liked the two mages purging, mages need pots they will burn through their mana and a tank for the boss is nice... we are looking forward to doing this as a guild event and hitting that round twenty
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Djed

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Tuesday, September 29th 2015, 9:57pm

So TH is more like an event now rather than an afterthought? Nice! Hopefully someone will post a screenshot of taking out the 20th level.

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douglas22888

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Tuesday, September 29th 2015, 10:05pm

well a few nights ago a bunch of on Artemis managed to make it to wave 20, we didn't have time to clear it, but we took out around maybe 5-7 of the mobs around the boss before being kicked
for most of the event I was personally buffed with food and a hero pot and I tend to use up A and B's like candy if they seem needed

and from what I've heard you can get some decent stuff from the big chests from wave 20 (someone has mentioned getting Unbalanced Barrier Blade with dex/pa)

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 1:51am

Well with Illagong, Allita and me on my Mage/Warden today we got to 20th round, lots of XP/TP, lots of good loot too. Mobs seems to have been adjusted to reflect the levels people are at now, well done on that and appreciated. We could have finished them all off but i was looting chests and misunderstood Illagong instructions ;-( sorry Illa.

If more people get in, kill the mobs, loot all the chests, it is good for everyone, still get free megas, free transport runes, free convenient mailboxes etc, just an overall AWESOME ADJUSTMENT to a place i always loved running and now even more!!!!!

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 2:59am

More fixes like this will go a long way to improving the game.

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illagong

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 8:01am

We had a few quick seiges on Reni tonight, so TH was packed with 12+ people. Burned thru first 15 waves or so, full cleared the last 5. A few people died I know, and people were definitely banding together for the later round mobs.

The mysterious chests drop rank 0 runes corresponding to approximately half the chest level (so XIX and XX chests drop tier X runes). The ancient chests dropped rank 1, tier X.

( Don't know rune ranks? see http://runesofmagic.gamepedia.com/Transmutation_Chart )

Lv92 normal mode weapons seems to be on the order of 1/15 from the round XX ancient chests.

another loot sample

22 ancient chests
kinya's ambush bow [dex/hp]
3 mail
2x spirit X
3 mega
3 hsh
2x 10 sea crystal
3 tp
2x skill potion
4x advanced agg
10 moon grass
100 arrow
2x 1 blue armour/weapon
2x 10 bleak fir
1 rare sage stone

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MODRUNE01

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 1:46pm

Think I did the same one as Zid with some Knightshift crew.

My initial thoughts:
- Prior to the change, there were times when I was the only one doing the event. Even so, I rarely did the event for my own reasons. It seems as though many more players are doing this now. I don't know if this is a short-term thing or we will see this same trend for some time.
- I can still tank the mobs on my squishy mage side at max level. Haven't tried the bosses as didn't get the chance, but overall these guys just have a lot more HP to dps through than before.
- Fix the chests! The chests are waaaay to close to each other and hard to loot the mysterious ones. Many chests seem to overlap now making targeting specific ones hard.

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 2:57pm

Agree, the chests at higher level are too tight. Normal pattern is that people pick the little ones and leave big alone till last level. That doesnt work anymore. With so many big chests, gaps are closed and you have to pick them up to see the little ones. That takes quite a bit longer and with so many more waves, party pretty much has to waste several waves to get at good chests.

Mobs are hard, and less geared or less DPSey people should team up at later waves. Bosses at those waves are probably not soloable at all. They would need real parties.

Which brings up timing. With TH set at same time as siege, it is not likely that a lot of people would be running them. I appreciate the time being moved, but the time slot is not ideal.

-- Rustyx --- 92R / 92S / 92M on Reni (Guild KnightShift). Yes, running the new FOTM R/M, cause I am not elf enough to be WD/S.

Oh, and people who have more than 3 classes are clinically insane.

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 3:05pm

Totally agree that chest land way too close to each other and hard to get the chance to get them all and i yought we were all DOOMED!!!! :beer:

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MODRUNE01

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 3:56pm

Re Chest drop locations:

A circular drop pattern does not fit well when you try to squeeze more and more chests using roughly the same size circle. Either:

1) The circle needs to expand to be bigger on each following wave of mobs.
OR
2) The chest sizes need to shrink.
OR
3) The chests should drop in a grid pattern instead.

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Djed

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 4:25pm

Last night was fun. A bunch of us got to together and worked through all the waves. Shout outs to FreeDestiny, Disturbed, and Knightshift working together to kill them mobs. They don't hit too terribly hard as long as they don't gang up on you; it's the hp amount that takes time. But it's still fun.

And yeah, the chests need to be further apart. I luckily had the space to collect them and then dump after the event.

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douglas22888

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 4:47pm

Yesterday my guild managed to clear wave 20
and has been mentioned in another topic the 92 mem weapons from Northern Stronghold can be obtained from the big chests on wave 20
I personally got a str/pa and str/stam last night

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Naveecheefe

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 5:00pm

Awesome. I did it for the first time last night and we got to lvl 17. The boss 1-hit me. Looking forward to going further, though.

NaveeCheefe (M/P/W/S 95/95/92/50)

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lemony2

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 5:07pm

Quoted from "Djed"

Shout outs to FreeDestiny, Disturbed, and Knightshift working

congrats dudes! (and dudettes)

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has been mentioned in another topic the 92 mem weapons from Northern Stronghold can be obtained from the big chests on wave 20

I personally got a str/pa and str/stam last night

oh boy!!!

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lemony2

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 6:35pm

oh I have a question... whats the lowest lv person to have run? I mean right now, its eating some of us levelcap peoples, i'd be sorta reluctant to take anyone less then 90

and when I was a growing toon, we used to invite our lowbies (50?) make a guild thing of it we'd kill for them and let them loot, was a good way for them to get loot, and see other guilds and right now I'd be doubtful to even allow a lv70 with us

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poisonarmadillo

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 6:48pm

Yep I got an annihilation of vc last night. They only drop out of the level 20 big boxes that require a key by the way.

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vfwiffo

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 6:51pm

Quoted from "lemony2"

oh I have a question... whats the lowest lv person to have run? I mean right now, its eating some of us levelcap peoples, i'd be sorta reluctant to take anyone less then 90

and when I was a growing toon, we used to invite our lowbies (50?) make a guild thing of it we'd kill for them and let them loot, was a good way for them to get loot, and see other guilds and right now I'd be doubtful to even allow a lv70 with us

The old "protocol" was to have everyone kill their own, until last couple waves. Those were OK to have OP people kill and lowbie/undergeared would just loot. People would also try to pull single mob so the chests are spread out and dont end up on top of each other.

With difficulty the way it is, that is probably the same, but at much higher level. OP people have to do killing at higher waves, because less OP people have little chance to kill. Also, it is hard to keep the kills spread out because the mobs take a while to kill and you have less control over exact position.

And, group has to decide what wave they go for. A big or more OP group can try for L20, but smaller groups have to shoot for lower level. If your server has people who cooperate with each other and work together, can just discuss in zone chat (that is limited to TH so good way to get everyone). If you get typical TH farmer population... well, that can be a problem.

-- Rustyx --- 92R / 92S / 92M on Reni (Guild KnightShift). Yes, running the new FOTM R/M, cause I am not elf enough to be WD/S.

Oh, and people who have more than 3 classes are clinically insane.

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zidlef

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 7:48pm

The ones i got last night

Guildies also got Revolution X and a bunch of other rune X like vigor/endurance/mind etc very happy with the upgrade of it TYVM GAMEFORGE!!!!!! :beer:

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lemony2

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 9:17pm

osha did it!! we cleared all 20 rounds with less then 10 minutes and minimal deaths, 13 peoples, ranging from 92-95 2heals, one warden, one scout, and a mix of mages, rogues in the end I believe (if I missed your class I do apologize) Thank you to the people of Techsupport, OldiesButGoodies, EasyCompany, SwordsOfValor, illuminae, NCIS, unaltered (if I missed your guild I apologize)

as far as I saw, there was no deaths except round 17 and the boss on round 20 ate a couple after chomping on the tank abit

overall I would say it was good

some excellent cooperation and I Hope Everyone Gots Some GOOD Loots

I ended up with 7 round 20 chests, one purple item lv92 gave str/hp stat

totally look forward to running again

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vfwiffo

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Wednesday, September 30th 2015, 9:35pm

I am trying to see if the keys are worth buying now, even when not on sale. I had 30 keys and got 3 purples out of 30 XX chests. So, my cost per purple is 60 dias, which at Reni dia prices is 5 mil. That doesn't seem too unreasonable, although I cant be sure if 3/30 is typical rate. So, what did other people get? Looks like Millen got 1/7, anyone else got data to contribute?

BTW, stats were HP/patt, HP/wis, and Stam/Dex.

-- Rustyx --- 92R / 92S / 92M on Reni (Guild KnightShift). Yes, running the new FOTM R/M, cause I am not elf enough to be WD/S.

Oh, and people who have more than 3 classes are clinically insane.

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